Re: bug in magnetic snapping lyrics engraver

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The second bug is super hard to fix: when you tell LilyPond about
> spacing constraints between lyrics, before line breaking, you need
> to assume a lyric syllable won't be moved to the left by
> 'magnetism', because if you do, the spacer might think it can space
> its right neighbor more to the left due to the space left by moving
> the syllable to the left, and if the compression cannot actually be
> done, it will collide.  But when the compression does get done, and
> the room is left empty, horizontal spacing has already been done and
> it is too late to tell the right neighbor that it would have room on
> its left.  Am I making sense?

This makes sense, thanks!


    Werner